Hot Water Heating

tanith

In Summer I shower morning and evening but I don’t have a bath tub anymore it was removed when the walk-in shower was installed. So can’t help with that one.

That helps a lot thank you. Showering twice a day rather than bathing is fine.
Just don’t want to run out completely!

ComeonEileen Thanks for your reply.

Does an hour in the morning and 30 minutes later actually work for you?
I need to check that my timer can be set twice a day possibly.
I currently have it on once a day.

Our water heating stays on all the time, as it's a part of the air source heating system that we can't turn on/off independently of the radiator heating. As soon as the temp of the water drops to 46°, it heats up again to around 52°.

Ive been thinking that this is something that we need to take up with the landlord, to see if anything can be done about it. I am absolutely certain that for much of the year, it would be cheaper to boil a kettle for the little hot water that we use, though obviously showering would be difficult.

This coming summer, once we dont need any heating, I will put that to the test by turning the whole system off, and doing exactly that, just boiling a kettle, for our hot water.

I monitor our energy usage carefully, so should quickly see if it makes a difference.

In Summer I shower morning and evening but I don’t have a bath tub anymore it was removed when the walk-in shower was installed. So can’t help with that one.

Don’t know why I bothered

Thanks Tanith.
Does that give you enough water to shower in the morning and a bath early evening?

It depends on what you use it for.
As a child the immersion heater went on half an hour before baths, as I remember. In those days washing up was done by hand but washing machines and dishwashers are all cold fill these days .
It saves both water and electricity (if you are on Economy 7) to run the dishwasher once overnight .
So to get back to your water heater, and depending on the size of your tank, an hour before you get up in the morning and perhaps 30 minutes in the evening , if you like baths, should be plenty.

One hour at 6am but there is only me in the house.